The Undertaking.
"I have done one braver thing
Than all the worthies did,
And yet a braver thence doth spring,
Which is to keep that hid."
John Donne (1572-1631)
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"He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not
become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also
gazes into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche